Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1887-11-02
DAKOTAB CLIMATE.
A Territory of Unsqualsd Natural
Resources and Healthfd
Climate.
Hundreds Of Anxious SettIers Ellfno
On the Northern PaeiAe
Indemnity Lands.

Inc COMMISSIONER OF tmml9t80o0 D.
seat out advance sheets Of the 'sRssources
Of Dakoia," 500 page pamphlet now b
the hands Of the printsr. The work vill
contain an extensive chapter on the agri-
cultural development OF Dakota Altar
the most careful inquiry the oommissionsf
comes to the following conclusion - -
the crops this year, the results given herr
being in round numbers: Wheat 02,000,.
600. corn 2A,000,0 ,000. oats 3,00Q. 900, AAx
3,9O0,t0J. Comparisons with the yield Of
1886 are given and the percentage Of waler
md albuminoids In American whsat, aflsf
giving table which shows Dakota n Ne
lead the report says: 'Ths average pes.
cen'age OF albuminoids in the wheats Of
all the United States and British Amer.
ica 10 12.15. In Dakota the average il
l496--lesding every state and territory.
Ihe average percentage OF the dfyneDs
OF the wheats Of the United States and
British America is 1915. In this respect
Dakota leads every competitor with IN
average percentage Of only 8.64 Of
Commenting on the result Of this investi-
the Dakota specimens are all extremely
rich in albuminoids-one containing 10
high a. 1903 per cent, which ID the fich-
est specimen ever analyx:d in the United
State. And, he adds, the eastern douf 10
poorer in nitrogen and gluten than any Of
Z the others. In fact the Aour follows close-
~ the conposition Of the wheat which has
been examined from the Same parts Of the
country. Dakota makes 3 hour richer
than any other in gluten in the same way
that i produces q wheat Of that desorip-
tion."
1t would be impossible in . Newspaper
article to give thorough review OF the
forthcoming work. As Dakota has been
greatly misrerresented a. 10 climate, the
people of the east believing that Dakota
freezes up in November and never thsws
out Till spring, that it il . long siege Of
bowling blixxards and cold unendurable,
We give space to this question, which
Commissioners McClurs covers 40 thor.
oughly: "The winters are cold, 1t 10 true,
but the air is dry, pure and full Of invigof-
at on, and with every respration one feels
spring Of perpetual youth. Less snow
falls in Dakota during the winters than in
the states east and south Of us. Az gen.
eral rule there Is scarcely enough snow to
make good sieiehing:
The most disagreeable and uncomfort-
able days OF the winter are not those IN.
dicatod by the lowest temperature, 90 our
eastern friends would imagine. It Il only
when the wind blows strong from the
northwest, full Of fine particles Of snow,
that the Dakotaian thinks Of housing him
self because Of the inclemency Of the
weather. These stofms, popularly known
90 blixxards, are quite severe, but FORUM
ately are rare and are always followed BY
days brighter and moro sunshiny, IL posse
BILE, than those Of the standard Tor tAis
season Of The year. The records of The
National weather burea1 peQEe he -
tion that IN the winter montkS Dakota -
joys more sunny days-dayS when persons
and teams are comfortable out OF doors-
than any Of the. states OF the east.
OF cyclones and like disastrous stogzng
the people Of Dakota have NO fear. IL
Investigations Of ~ Uu1tsd States siunAl
service declasss - y - withou. the -
clone ebe1k IaGA ysazss rscscd tells OF
dsaah &saling ege1Gnea. q terrible foods.
OF eeGogt Aeeo. q dEoaght and Of earth
qaakss - nsi4Aboftng states, and yet no
aas thiaks OK maligning those sections Of
h 0nion by oft repeated exaggerations Of
their misfortunes. But let Dakota be vis-
tied BY the least Of these disasters and
there would follow such an outpouring Of
misrepresentation, topped with glarinR
head lines, as would move the very world
for sympathy. When the truth in regard
to Dakota's climate shall become widely
known, she will need NO louder songs sung
in her praise than viii thsn be uttered By
her present ignoFant detractoss. lntslli-